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...pushing for a free-trade agreement with the U.S. despite opposition from Canadians who fear that free trade could compromise their country's cultural sovereignty by allowing big U.S. companies to gobble up Canadian book publishing and broadcasting. Mulroney's most urgent task, though, will be to convince his countrymen that he and his colleagues emerged from Lac Meech last week carrying a compass. --By Peter Stoler/Ottawa
With his bold declaration, the young leader had spawned a new idea: that he and other Latin American leaders had a right to limit the sacrifices of their countrymen. And while bankers have been relieved that no other South American country has yet adopted Peru's guideline, several have followed García's lead by stiffening their resolve not to let their debt problems further damage either their national pride or their fragile domestic economies...
...been a big hit in every town we visited," notes Deputy Director Xu Zhiyuan. After ten cities, the tumblers are still adjusting from the intimate Chinese circus style to what Xu politely calls "a very grand presentation that is to the American audience's taste." Meanwhile, their countrymen were adjusting last week to the American circus known as Super Bowl XX. The first 90-min. TV broadcast of "gan lan qiu" (olive ball) was watched by some 300 million Chinese...
Speaking before television cameras in Vienna's ornate Hofburg Palace, Austrian President Rudolf Kirchschläger was at pains to select his words carefully. His aim: to render a balanced judgment for his 7 million countrymen about accusations that Presidential Candidate Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary-General, had knowingly falsified his World War II record and was involved in Nazi atrocities...
Most important, thousands of ordinary Pakistanis, who had cheered her arrival last spring, remained silent after her arrest, apparently out of apathy. She is charismatic enough to draw crowds but not strong enough to summon her countrymen to the barricades. This fact was not lost on Zia, who has never been particularly popular but has given the country a decade of relative stability...